Ever wondered why your sales numbers got stuck? I have, and I researched ways to get it even higher. Now it’s crunched down to only 3 easy steps for you to follow. How would 50% more in sales feel to you?

Ok so lets begin.

Starting point:

You got to have some overview of what you are doing, know your numbers as they say. The numbers you need for this to work is how much daily traffic you got to your salespage, what the conversion rate is and the price of your product or service.

In my example I will keep the numbers easy.

Example:

Traffic: 1000 visitors

Conversion: 1 percent

Price of product: $19

Period: a month or 30 days.

Sum of sales is in this example $5700.

Step 1 in your 50% increase in sales: Traffic

If you bump your traffic by only 15% this would directly go to your bottom line as 15% extra profit if all the other numbers stay the same. Will i be hard for you to get that little traffic extra? What will you have to do? Write an extra blog post, submit more articles, comment more on other blogs? It will not be much, but I know you can do it.

Here are the numbers after a 15% increase in traffic:

Traffic: 1150 visitors

Conversion: 1 percent

Price of product: $19

Period: a month or 30 days.

Sum of sales is in this example $6555. (Whopping 15% extra cash in pocket! 🙂 )

Step 2 in your 50% increase in sales: Conversion

So now I dare you to increase your conversion of the salespage by 15%. Is this possible? Instead of 1% conversion you will then get 1,15 percent conversion rate. You can do this by split testing (look it up on tha internet) and changing parts of your salespage, adding new fresh images, give a better guarantee or get (more) testimonials on your page. This will help in the conversion and can easy make this little increase in the conversion rate. Go do it!

Here are the numbers after a 15% increase in conversion:

Traffic: 1150 visitors

Conversion: 1,15 percent

Price of product: $19

Period: a month or 30 days.

Sum of sales is in this example $7538. (Whopping 30%+ extra cash in pocket, than to begin with! 🙂 )

Step 3 in your 50% increase in sales: Price

Are you stuck in your pricepoint? People value products and services after price. But a little change in the price wouldnt hurt your sales. At least not just 15% increase. The price in this example will go from $19 to $21.85 and thats not much at all. People spend more than that at Mc Donalds when they opt in for a bigger meal or adds a desert. So this is maybe the easiest part of the challenge. Thats why I kept it as the last one. So lets go over our numbers again.

Here are the numbers after a 15% increase in price:

Traffic: 1150 visitors

Conversion: 1,15 percent

Price of product: $21,85

Period: a month or 30 days.

Sum of sales is in this example $8668. (Whopping 50%+ extra cash in pocket, than to begin with! 🙂 )

So how about that. We just did 3 simple steps, and now you got 50% more cash coming in every single month! How will your life change now? Do you get more time, more freedom or more cash to invest in future projects? An extra vacation?

I would love to hear from you and how your stats are after implementing this, feel free to comment about your success in the bottom of this post!

As many of you know, starting out is hard, you need to do a lot with your website. Getting content, building links, tweaking, adding new features, market it other ways and answer all questions and comments that come in.

With this little golden nugget I have found, you can put parts of your link building on auto-pilot. It’s called IMAutomator. This is a free service for up to 10 bookmarks per day! If you don’t write more articles than 10 per day overall on your sites this will be enough for you. But if you need to bookmark more every day, they also have a paid version which can do that for you to.

All you have to do is signup for FREE at IMAutomator, then head over to the Bookmark page and fill in the URL, keywords, description, headline and category. Then you get 3 options, make all the links in 1 day, over a period of 15 days or 30 days. This is to make it look more natural to the search engines that your site is bookmarked over time.

Then the site works for you! Easy to do.

I hope you enjoy it and if you want more tips like this subscribe to my RSS feed.

Holy grail of blog sites. You got two options, wordpress.com which they host for you or the other one wordpress.org which you download and install on your own hosting and domain. I recommend the last one since you can play a bit more and can’t get kicked out, unless you stop paying for hosting or domain. You have all the options you can think of and a big community to help you, even professionals if you are willing to pay for it. But it’s a harder learning curve than the others. Check it out!

Twitter

I don’t know if we should call it a blog, but blog is short for web log, so it’s kind of that. You only get 160 characters to play within each “post” so you learn to compress your message into few words and people today have little time so it’s a perfect match. Check it out!

Blogger

The big G (Google) owns this one. It’s easy to start out with, but has some limitations, but if you start out with this one you will see if you have the blogger inside you. Check it out!

Part 2 of 6 best blog sites:

Weebly

This is a cool site, allows you to make 1 site for free. Has a lot of templates readymade for you to use. I used them to be a satellite site for one of my Norwegian blog sites, and it has steadily given me a lot of visitors, it is indexed well by Google. The blog feature is easy to use to a beginner and you can own your own domain, making it look more professional. Check it out!

Tumblr

The tumble log as it is known for is a different type of blog environment with some features that social media have. Good options on importing blog posts from other sources if you are converting to it. Plus for having a great community within and is ability to photo blog if you are more into that. Check it out!

Posterous

Also good importing options here. And you can post much of the same content as the above blog sites. What’s good about it is you just have to send an email to post@posterous.com to start your blog, or post a new one. Check it out!

There is an ever growing community of blogs in big and small niches out there. Some are better than others, and you can be to. In this list I have gone through some of my fellow bloggers blogs and sorted out what they do to be visible to others, set them apart and keep recurring visitors to their blog.

1. About you page

The about you page is often neglected by a lot of bloggers, me included. This is the page that most people will go through if they are first visitors, they want to get to know you and what you are into to see if you are a match to them at some level. You should describe what you like to do and what your interests are. Also include a short 160 character description from this page on your front page with a link to your about page so people see it straight away.

Make it easy for people to subscribe to your newsletter. The sidebar is ideal to this, and you can easily get for example Aweber to get you a short script to put in the sidebar with a recommendation to subscribe to your newsletter. Also explain what people will get when they subscribe and why they should. They would mostly want to get updates from your blog and special content only sent to subscribers so they don’t have to check in on your site all day long, but rather check their mail when you post something new.

3. Put sharing links on your blog

You have to use the visitors as a way of spreading your content. If you visit WordPress’s plugin directory you could search for social media, then you will find ways to include sharing buttons to facebook, twitter, google+ and other social networks so people easily can share the content to the network they are a part of. Include this in the top and bottom of your posts to help people to share it before or after they have read your post.

4. Include a subscription to your newsletter in the comment section

If you look at some of the top bloggers in the make money/internet marketing niches you will find that they include a request of the commenter’s to check a checkbox that will subscribe them to their newsletter and also follow ups on the further commenting on the blog post. This way more people will subscribe.

5. Put up a resource page in your navigation

People in your niche are most likely out to get more information, programs and get hold of other resources that could help them or otherwise give them a nudge forward. The resource page should contain this information and they will most likely come back if the resources you provide help them in one or another way.

6. Reward your top commenter’s

You would want people to comment on your posts, and you should include an open ending to your posts, leaving it up to the visitors to continue the discussion. One way you can improve your comments on posts is to reward the top commenter’s to receive a place in a top list in your sidebar so they will have an incentive to comment on posts to get “fame”.

7. List your most popular posts

In WordPress you can get a plugin to show the most popular/most read posts of your blog. This means the visitors value this posts and others might to. So include this in a place where people see it and can easily read those posts.

8. Be easy to contact

After you have blogged for a while people will want to reach you for more information or to give you tips or opinions on your blog or content. So be easy to reach on a email account you dedicate to your blog, show them that you actively read and comment on the comments in your posts, provide a way for people to reach you through social media and any other place you may be reachable. Remember to get back to people with an note to show them you have read what they had to say and answer any questions. This will make them raving fans.

9. Create your social media profiles according to your blog

Go on to create social profiles on all the places you can think of, make them auto update the content from your blog and setup the profile according to your blog. Use the same colors, pictures, logo and edit it so they are familiar with you and your blog when they see you in other media.

Go through your blog and any statistics you have to sort out ten of your best posts. Update them if you need to and turn them into a video. Put the videos on all possible video sharing sites and link the description back to your blog. And put the videos in the blog as well to present the content in a new way. Check out Camtasia for doing this, it enables you to record your microphone and an PowerPoint presentation so it’s easy to make videos.

11. Turn your best posts into new updated podcast

As with number ten on this list, you should start a podcast with your blog. Then you reach out to people that want your content but are on different medias, like iPods, iphones, ipads and iTunes users. They also don’t need to read all your content and can listen to it instead.

12. Create an eBook about what you teach in the blog

You already have a list of your ten best posts from the previous list items. This is the content people want the most. You should go through the topics and go even deeper into the fields of those posts. Research and provide more value. Turn it all into an eBook to either sell on your blog or include it as an incentive to subscribe to your list.

13. Get a customized blog theme

All the big bloggers recommend this and most of them have specialized themes, some based on existing themes but they got their personal touch. This is a part of branding that you should use. Think of yourself, why do you like Pepsi or Coca Cola the best? It’s branding and sometimes taste, but you indentify with the brand and want to show people what you are into. This applies to blogs as well.

If you use Adsense as your primary source of monetizing on your blog, you should maximize the potential earnings. Go through their guidelines for how many ads you can place on you blog and do that. You can also include a customized search box that you can put on your site. This way people can search your site with the power of Google, and you get any earnings that is generated through that specialized search.

Show a big button of the RSS logo. Make people know that your blog have an RSS feed and put it a few places on your site. People are used to using RSS readers now and you should help them in including your site in their reader.

16. Use fresh sparkling images in your posts

After you have written a post, go through the content you have and find some places that you can include pictures that gives some of your content more focus. There are a lot of places on the web to find free images, like sxc.hu, that you can use on your blog with accordingly presented accreditations. This will make your content look more a live and not be as boring as long posts can be.

People also want to get up in the blogging field. A great way to get seen is to guest post on other blogs in the same niche. You can also ask other bloggers to guest post at them to capture some more readers. You should also encourage people to guest post at your blog. This way you don’t have to write as much blog posts as you used to and your readers will find other interesting people in the community to follow and get other perspectives from.

18. Mind map your way out of writers block

If you often get writers block this is a golden nugget. Take a piece of paper in front of you, write down you niche or blog name in the middle. Write every category you think people will be interested in around the middle, then write three to five things that each of this interests could be broken down to. Then you already have a big map of subjects you could write about in the future, do this regularly and you won’t be facing writers block.

19. Be active on other blogs in your community

Go to Google and search for your blogs niche. On the left side you will find several options to specialize your search. Click on the blogs link and then the Google search results will only show blogs in your niche. Go through the blogs and read some of the posts you find there, supplement the posts with good information in the comments that will be valuable to readers of the posts. When you comment you get a link to your own blog and will get readers that find your valuable comments.

20. Share this post with your readers

The final one is to share this posts with other bloggers, help them by giving them a link to this post, so they also will build stronger, better, more valuable blogs that benefit you in the end since they got the information from you and your niche will be better overall!

Just wondered how many “TW” I could legit put in the heading. Seems that 3 is enough. Today I was really sad to see out the window, its like you put your shower on maximum pressure, just the sky is the shower. Its reported flooding and it will rain about 8 cm water in just two days. So I got a good cup of coffe and sat down playing with twitter.

I came over my posts thats been retweeted by others and compiled this list, sorting out links that wouldnt work anymore and other stuff that had a timelimit, giving me the list below. Hope you enjoy the list and can get you in a better mood than this rainy day.

I challenge you to do the same today, go to twitter, click on retweets -> your tweets, retweeted and compile your own list! Place a comment below to your list or all the links you have, share the stuff people like!

I just wanted to give you a great link over to SmartPassiveIncome.com (from Pat Flynn) to a video that is going over his site with a hard critique eye!

Pat Flynn is a great blogger who I have followed for a long time, and I think he was in a podcast, on an article and I found him through google the same week, he is everywhere. But now he wanted to be at his own webspace, going over his site and conversion potential. And I loved the video, it gives you some to the point tricks and tips that you could implement yourself in about 30 minutes time on your blog.

Ps. The video is the video that kicked me into renewing this site, and getting back on with the writing as I was in the beginning. Now I have a vision for how it should look, a plan for posting and topics to use, I feel I am all set, and i hope you will enjoy reading the upcoming posts, keep up to date by the RSS feed on the upper right, and I will soon have my email newsletter setup. See ya around!

I wanted to share how you can easily get rid of the problem with 1and1.com hosting and wordpress auto update on things like wordpress itself, plugins install, themes install. I have spent the last 3 hours trying to get wordpress to upgrade itself, but always got the page “Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.1.3.zip…” …. and nothing more. Just a blank page after that. After trying ftp methods and other crappy things to put in the wp config file , I finally found Adam Youngs blog. He have experienced the same, and have the solution to it on the link below. Just 2 simple operations and you and wordpress are playing together again!

The brand new newsletter Mevik IM is starting out, offering the first 500 to join at a very low price. Sonn prices will go up.

What can you expect in such a newsletter? Not only the newsletters that will cover tactics from the big gurus in the internetmarketing community, but also a free job search script thats included from www.phpsnake.com and some other bonuses will be launched later on.

I have started and run my $700.000 business on the internet, I got 12000 visits the first month of my very first blog, and made about $1000 the first month online. I want to help others achive the same, and thats you!

What will you want to see in upoming newsletters? What will you ask me if you had me on 1 and 1 consultation? Write it as a comment here and I will give you answers!